Publisher's Summary

It’s been ten years since Connor Connolly lost his parents in ‘The Battle’; a fight between The Governor and Jones, two of the world’s strongest metas. Before ‘The Battle’ the world had been full of metas, super-powered humans whose amazing abilities came from mysterious wristbands. Since that day one has never been seen again.

Now 16-years-old, Connor lives in Bay View City with his older brother Derrick, a meta-obsessed blogger, where he’s just trying to keep his head down long enough to survive high school. All of that changes the night he attempts to save a girl's life and wakes up to find the first new pair of metabands anyone has seen wrapped around his wrists.

Connor soon finds an unlikely ally in Midnight, a masked vigilante who helps him learn how to harness his new abilities, while also trying to balance his summer job at the lake. As a meta, Connor becomes known as Omni, potentially the most powerful meta the world has ever seen, but it isn’t long before he finds out he's no longer alone...

The story was fairly easy to follow, and not completely obvious as to what would happen next.

What does Tom Reynolds bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Well spoken and brought more of the writers expression on how the story was meant to be told.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, because it kept my interest throughout the whole story.

Any additional comments?

I'm a fan of the podcast The Complete Guide To Everything, and so I thought I'd give Tom's book a try and it was pretty good. Great job Tom :) hope you have a second one in progress.

4 of 4 people found this review helpful

Jaycee Angelman-Soules

25/07/16

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"Awesome Read"

Amazing, was a taste of the Reckoners. With a flare of orgilnality. Stellar listen. thanks

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Amazon Tech Guy

19/09/15

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"Enjoyable Story and Interesting Characters"

I really enjoyed this book. The premise made for an interesting storyline, and I liked the character development. would definitely recommend this audiobook.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

TRACI HUNT

15/03/16

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"Great book."

I really enjoyed reading the book and wanted to hear the authors take on narrating it. I wasnt disappointed.

2 of 3 people found this review helpful

zila jones

3/12/16

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"Great"

This book was amazing. Just plain fun! Can't wait to read the next. Hope mr reynolds keeps on writing

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Christopher R. Gibbons

22/11/16

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"loved it, definitely buying book 2."

good writing, and a great story, but christ the narrator is terrible. he never breaks monotone, he never pauses appropriately for punctuation, and never shows any enthusiasm. There is no way someone could be that bad by accident. The kindle text to speech program is a better narator.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Micah

19/11/16

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"Good story"

Im looking forward to the second one. Its a good story, though it was meant for an actual voice actor. It needed to be done though to get the others done by someone else. So it is definitely worth the story.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Amazon Customer

26/10/16

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"Narrator ruins it"

The story is great but the author narrates the book. He also has a speech impediment and can't say most of his t's. Why would you not pay someone to read the book audible........ yuck

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Marquis

11/09/16

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"Amazing"

The teen comic book lover in me could help but buy all three books! This is amazing I hope we get 10 books out of him !!!

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Amazon Customer

4/09/16

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"Was surprised it was good."

I was surprised this ended so well. It started weak, and I am impressed it got that much better.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

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anthony

OSWESTRY, United Kingdom

17/02/14

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"New kid on the block writes like an old pro."

Would you consider the audio edition of Meta to be better than the print version?

Yes Mr Reynolds performance was top notch and brought the characters to life.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Meta?

The equine Easter egg towards the end of the book had me grinning from ear to ear.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

I felt the final showdown was really well done and had me rooting for Connor without wishing to give spoilers all I can say is it was an intelligent and exciting climax.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

It ain't easy being super.

Any additional comments?

I would normally have never picked a book with this subject matter up however being a huge fan of Tom's other audio work on the complete guide to everything I thought what the hell lets give it a whirl.I was shocked to discover a wonderfully engaging barnstorming tale of daring do.While paying homage to other comic book greats Tom also innovates and brings a raft of fresh ideas of his own to the party,with Connor we have a hero that we can relate to as he struggles to find his place in the world.

I have friends who enjoy comics or graphic novels if you prefer and one of their great woes is that once they finish one the urge to consume for is overwhelming.This is how I felt after finishing this wonderful romp if there were already more books in this series to buy I would have done so.I feel sorry for anyone discovering Tom's work in 20 years from now when he has a huge body of work behind him because they will be spending a fortune in a very short space of time.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Mr. R. J. Pascall

19/08/16

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"Poorly written amd even worse marration."

The story is enjoyable enough, if a bit clichèd but it's the boring, unrealistic conversations and dull pace that lets it down.Also, a cardinal sin is authors narrating their own stories poorly. I totally understand that sometimes it is necessary to narrate yourself due to monetary constraints but how can someone do so and put so little enjoyment into the tale?I will check out the other books in the series though as I saw a glimmer of excellence in there and hope things get better.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Matt Ahern

12/02/16

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"entertaining"

had the book for a while but struggled due to read due to time constraints

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

C. Gray

United Kingdom

7/09/15

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"Easily accessible, even if superheroes aren't usually your thing."

When it comes to superhero stories I'm normally one to pass it up, however after dithering for a while I took the plunge and was not disappointed.

I've listened to Tom on the TCGTE podcast for more than 5 years and was worried his narration would be strange to my ear, however it was well paced, clear and articulated each character well.

The story itself - whilst clearly a superhero story - isn't so stupidly far fetched as to be incomprehensible and you get the sense that each of the characters has a significant back story that you really want to discover (seriously, what *is* the deal with Midnight?!).

I'd really recommend this to anyone.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

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